Gaah! Clocks going back soon ...

[fletchie]

... and definitely do not want to be getting up at unearthly hours. Am quite honestly dreading it. Just wondering if any tips as after two years still have not managed to get my dd prepared. Am sort of starting to make her bedtimes later but she still gets up at same time, just a bit more tired. My other dd who is 8 months would go to bed at 6pm if she could - how can I get her to go to bed a bit later. Any tips would be most appreciated xx

Sorry no tips, am dreading this as well.

When exactly is it - this weekend or next? Am I leaving it to last minute or being organised ... not the latter I imagine as usually miss the boat!

Help maybe I am completely ignorant but, if the clocks go back then they get up and hour earlier and so they go to bed an hour earlier? when the clocks went forward DS didn't want to go to bed any later as he had a full day.

its this weekends that the clocks goes back

My suggestion is blackout curtains in the bedroom.

Yay! An extra hour of sleep. Hurray!

I am dreading it!

DD2 (14 mth) disturbs so much at night, she has had a cold, then teething, now quite croupy, yet she still wakes up at 6 - 6.30 am. This will be 5 I iamgine.

I am hoping that it will sort itself out over a couple of days though.

Hi Suss,
don't try the hour earlier thing! Going back means they get an extra hour of sleep so they will wake an hour earlier than normal, so a later bedtime would be best. e.g. normal bed 7pm/wake 7am - clocks changing will make the old 7am now 6am (if you see what I mean!)

I've been trying later bedtimes all this week but dd is only waking about 15mins later. Guess who's gonna be up at 5.00-5.15am starting from Sunday !

I seem to remember your lo is almost 1 year younger than mine and last year was no problem for dd at all - I just put her to bed an hour later than norm.

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Guess who's working a what should be 12.5 hr night shift now to be a 13.5 hr night shift and dosent get paid for the extra hours work?

FPF - that's terrible! Surely there's rules about that sort of thing!

Nope. They say you should work the night when the clocks go froward. This is my second clocks going back and have never done a clocks going forward night shift.

I am a little worried as dd has only recently started sleeping as late as 7/7.30am and I don't want it to end! I am hoping for a rough few days and then she will hopefully get used to it.

Luckily she is at her dads on Saturday night so I will get the extra hour then!

Make sure you tell him her "new" bed time - 1 hour later!!

what do you all do when you go on holiday and there is a time diff? I don't find the clocks changing makes any difference, just change bedtime and in a couple of days they will be on the new time

Countess - never been anywhere where there is more than 1 hour difference! Good Luck all

We have been lucky with Dd1, each time we've been to LA she hasn't really been jet lagged. And was fine with clocks changing.

But DD2 is just a different kettle of fish!!!

Sorry I am being stupid - DS will wake at six instead of seven on sunday morning well I will ignore him like I do every morning when he wakes early! and he will have bedtime at normal time. But it should only be a problem on Sunday shouldn't it?

If you can ignore him that's fab. Unfortunately I can't always get away with the ignoring and end up getting up! Sort of looking forward to the bed thing so she can just get up and play (ha ha - like that's gonna happen!). I'm being a pansy and putting her to bed 8pm tonight and tomorrow in the hope that we can go back to 7pm on sunday. I'm off home now so will catch up with everyone on Tuesday - Good luck all